Culinary boiler



(No Model.)

I'. MCKINLEY.

CULINARY BOILBR.

110,461,120. Patented 001. 13, 1891.

A 113m. mwa/ag UNITED- STATES PATENT GEEIGE.

FRED MCKINLEY, oF ACME, WASHINGTON.

CULTNARY BOILER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 461,120, dated Octoberv 13, 1891.

Application filed March 19, 1891- Serial No. 385,659. (No model.)

To all wiz-,0m t mayconcerm..

Be it known that I, FRED MCKINLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Acme, in

the county of Whatcom and State of Wash-4 5 ington, have invented a new and useful Culinary'Boiler, of which the followingis a speciiication.

My invention relates to domestic boilers or Icookers for cooking. beans, rice, soups, pota.- roftoes, dac.; and the objects in view are to provide a cooker of the above class adaptedto support the vegetables being cooked in a separated manner from the water, so that said vegetables may be lifted as a whole and the x5 water drained therefrom, and, furthermore, to provide a convenient cover for the cooker in which the vegetables may be drained of `water.

Referring to the drawings, Figure I is a 2o perspective of accoker constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail in elevation of the combined top and drip-pan and lthe perforated cylinder mounted therein. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the combined cover and drip-pan.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

l designates a boiler ci' anysuitable shape, size, the., and the same-is provided with ears 2 and bail 3. w

4 designates a vegetable-cylinder, the wall and bottom of which are perforated minutely and the former surrounded by an inclined flange 5, formed of imperforate metal, and to the same upon its inner side is secured a pair of bail-ears 6, in which are loosely connected the ends of a bail 7.

8 designates the combined cos-'errand drip- 4o pan, the same consisting of a bottom 9 and a surrounding wall 10. The wall 10 extends some distance above the bottom and is flared at its lower edge, as at 11, and extended some distance below the bottom. A loop l2 is soldered or otherwise secured to the bottom, and to the sameis loosely connected a handle 13, adapted to fold down upon the bottom or extend over the edge of the wall of the cover,` for which purpose the handle is bent at a right 5o angle, as at 14. In operation the boiler 1 is filled with Water,

after which the vegetables to be cooked-for instance, beans-are placed in the cylinder andthe latter inserted in the boiler, and is4 p supported above the bottom of the same by the inclined flange 5, the upper edge of which extends above the edge of the boiler. By the Iflange 5 the vegetables are supported above the bottom of the boiler, and the only point of contact between the boiler and cylinder is 6o p the boiler, and after placing the pan under- 7o thecylinder sets the same nplon a table or other convenient place. The water is now. poured from the boiler, and while this is bemg accomplishedthe water is being drained from y the beans, after which the cylinder may be replaced in the boiler to dry. f In cooking potatoes a similar operation takes place, and in soups the coarse vegetables may be supported within the cylinder, and "after the soup h as been made the vegetables maybe withdrawn 8o by simply lifting the cylinder from the boiler, thus leaving the soup in the latter. The cylinder, being placed in the-pan, serves to drain all soupginto the latter, which may be poured back into the boiler.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 'l f' 1. The herein-'described cooker, consisting of a boiler, a perforated cylinder supported within the boiler, and a combined cover' and 9o i pan mounted on the cylinder and having upper' and lower annular flanges, the upper ilange being deeper than the lower'ilange and adapted to serve as a pan, substantially as specified. A 95 2. The herein-described cooker, consisting of a boiler, an inner perforated cylinder, and the cover and pancombin'ed, the same being provided with a handle hinged to one side and to the bottom of the cover and foldable withroo in the same, substantially as specified; i

3. The herein-described cooker, consisting of the bottom, the upper surrounding flange of the boiler, the' inner cylinder having the bottom or outwardly over the edge of the :o perforated wall and bottom, the upper flared flange, substantially as specified. lmperforate ange fitting the upper end of In testimony that I elaim the foregoing as the boiler, the bail connected to the flange, my ownI have hereto aixed my signature in and the combined cover and pan, consisting presence of two witnesses.

l A FRED MCKINLEY. and the lower` flared ange fitting the oylin-V Witnesses: der, the loop, and the bent handle connected D. E. BIGGS, with the loop, adapted to fold down upon the F, N. BRONSON. 

